Beyond Boards

Episode 52 - Dani Abulhawa

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Episode 52 with Dani Abulhawa, skateboarder, artist and academic from Rugby, England.  


Together we discussed her growing up in the Midlands and picking up her first board in 1998, feeling slightly out of place as a skateboarder for a long time, her journey with academia from completing her PhD to becoming a senior lecturer in performance at the University of Leeds, her involvement with NGO Skatepal which started in 2015, going to both editions of the Pushing Boarders events in 2018 and 2019, starting non-profit Skate Manchester with a few

friends, writing her book « Skateboarding and femininity: Gender, Space Making and Expressive Movement » which was published in 2020, the Plant Ecology Beyond Land project she initiated with her husband Christian Berger, the Skatepark Allyship audio artwork she recently put out…  


  • Intro (00:13) 
  • Getting started (01:25)
  • First magazine (03:53) 
  • Not a « typical » skateboarder (04:57) 
  • Getting into Academia (09:27) 
  • Involvement with Skatepal (16:22)
  • Pushing Boarders (25:57) 
  • Skate Manchester (28:53) 
  • Celebrating the « effortless » way of skating (31:06) 
  • Skateboarding and femininity (36:51) 
  • Plant Ecology Beyond Land (47:21) 
  • Skatepark allyship audio artwork (53:36) 
  • Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (58:40) 
  • Friends questions (59:25) 
  • Conclusion (01:22:32)  


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